IT WAS the solitary phoenix that rose from the ashes of a fallen British institution.

IT SOUNDS like every schoolboy's dream: working for a company that combines computers with intelligence gathering for the police and the military. For David Carrick, chie

BRITISH Airways was forced to deny it was seeking assistance from the government yesterday as speculation over its future mounted.

INSURER Aviva is to sell off almost all of its Australian businesses to National Australia Bank for about £400 million, and has revealed it is looking for potential acquisi

STRUGGLING consumer lender Cattles yesterday yesterday disclosed that it was in "constructive" talks with its creditors in a bid to gain more breathing space over debt

A very notable advance in social search pretty much flew completely under the radar last week. Social powerhouse Digg announced several important enhancements to their API which will make it easier for developers to build applications using Digg data. Much

Social software vendors are increasingly focusing on scenario-specific solutions and analytics according to new research released today by CMS Watch.CMS Watch's Enterprise Social Software & Collaboration Report 2009 evaluated twenty-seven social computing platforms against eleven enterprise use-cases. Vendors reviewed include

Display advertising, once the darling of Internet marketing, fell out of favor as the rise of PPC (pay-per-click) advertising began. That may soon change as Yahoo! today , a self-serve display ad marketplace for ads on Yahoo and its partner

Do you doubt that new domain extensions are on their way? Internet infrastructure service provider announced it has been selected by as the registry services provider for its application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for

It's not often that you see a commercial shopping cart bundled with a Web hosting package. In fact, only those of the open source variety have ever crossed my path. Web hosting company Aplus.net must not have gotten the memo

If you're seeking additional revenue opportunities don't miss out on tomorrow's "" webinar, sponsored by Verio and hosted by Website Magazine. You'll learn how web design companies (and many other service providers) are selling value-added services like web hosting, SaaS

You got your peanut butter in my chocolate!" -- "You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!" What the initially skeptical characters in Reese's famous candy commercials learned through a somewhat painful cross-sell process -- usually by bumping into each

It wasn't long after the launch of Linden Lab's Second Life back in 2003 that companies and organizations around the globe began to sit up and take notice. The prospect of millions of potential customers -- all flocking to the

Since its conception in 1996, Google's search engine has played a key role in redefining not only the role of the Internet, but also the accessibility of the Internet to the end-user. In 2000, Google began selling ads associated with

Testimony begins Tuesday in the Italian trial of four Google executives accused of defamation and violating privacy for allowing a video to be posted online showing an autistic youth being abused. All four deny wrongdoing. The case could set the

In what's being hailed as a milestone moment, Intel and Nokia announced they will work together on developing new mobile chipset technologies, as well as new devices to use them. What, exactly, those devices might be or when they might

his week, we're taking a look at the number of keywords for which you should optimize a single page of your site. It is possible to optimize a web page for a single keyword and get rankings for many keywords.

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs received a liver transplant about two months ago and is expected to return to the company by the end of June.Jobs underwent the liver transplant operation at a hospital in Tennessee, according to the Wall

Wetpaint has unveiled a new measurement tool for online engagement with TV shows, as opposed to simply monitoring viewership. It's called the , and leverages data aggregated from multiple sources, which Wetpaint calls the most relevant, real-time, and reflective of

A limited number of users may soon see pricing info and images of merchandise appearing alongside Google's search results. The company is testing what it calls "product ads," and these should represent an interesting departure from Google's usual way of